Sustaining Rules: A Model and Application

Turri, J. (2017). Sustaining rules: a model and application. In J. A. Carter, E. C. Gordon, & B. Jarvis (Eds.), Knowledge first. Oxford University Press.

I introduce an account of when a rule normatively sustains a practice. My basic proposal is that a rule normatively sustains a practice when the value achieved by following the rule explains why agents continue following that rule, thus establishing and sustaining a pattern of activity. I apply this model to practices of belief management and identify a substantive normative connection between knowledge and belief.